Veteran sportscaster Charlie Jones dies of heart attack

Published 5:30 am, Saturday, June 14, 2008

Veteran sportscaster Charlie Jones, whose landmark play-by-play calls during a 38-career television career called the first AFL game aired on TV and the infamous Bills-Oilers playoff game in 1993, has died. He was 77.

Jones worked for ABC and NBC in a career spanning 38 years. He was the play-by-play announcer for the Dallas Texans in 1960, the AFL's debut season, and later moved from ABC to NBC, where he called the Oilers' overtime loss to Buffalo. He was selected in 2007 as a member of the Texas Radio Hall of Fame.